Is there a Linux VLC version which supports the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) protocol?

I use OBS Studio to stream live video using the SRT protocol.

To receive the stream, the current Windows and MacOS versions of VLC can be used.

But the Linux versions were compiled without libsrt, and cannot receive SRT streams. I checked the version in the Ubuntu repository: vlc/focal 3.0.9.2-1, and also the nightly PPA: 4.0.0~rc1~~git20210808+r89110+251~ubuntu20.04.1.

I could of course try to compile it myself. But I suspect that, because of the huge number of codecs and containers that it supports, compiling it with all it's libraries would be quite cumbersome.

So, does anyone know where I could find a pre-compiled binary of VLC for Linux which has libsrt enabled?

1 Answer

We can run some package analysis on and locally installed 20.04 LTS:

1. the Secure Reliable Transport UDP streaming library is provided by srt source package

2. the most interesting binary package which is produced from source srt package is libsrt1

3. running reverse dependency check against libsrt1 on 20.04 LTS gives the following output:

   $ apt-cache rdepends libsrt1
   libsrt1
   Reverse Depends: libsrt-dev vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-access-extra srt-tools gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

So you have to install two VLC related packages by

sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-access-extra

and then retry accessing SRT stream.